iSD in the Tech Age!



Net-self-defense, we spend an exorbitant amount of time on our physical defense training and then we forget that our lives are in just as much danger of "Grave Financial Harm" or Financial ruin (Death) as if we are attacked by a street predator. Research and studies show, from the security experts in this field, that Anti-virus and Firewall suites only catch about 5% of the threats out there and those same folks tell us that it is in all probability worse at the Enterprise levels.


My goal here is to educate myself, and by proxy, pass on what I learn to others so that each individual who is connected at any level can take steps to achieve some semblance of security in their electronic on-line lives. We are so deeply imbedded in modern technology that to not take appropriate actions to learn iSD or internet self-defense in the technological age is just foolishness.


My goal is to provide enough of a foundation that readers, like me, can take the appropriate actions, i.e., apply those fundamental principles of technological methodologies to safeguard one of the more important, actually critical, strategies and tactics to defend ourselves from grave economical harm or even economical/financial death or ruin from nefarious predatory hacking processes.


Nothing in this blog is definitive, it is meant to set a foundation of knowledge, understanding and awareness so that you are not one day blindsided by some effort to steal your very life out from underneath you so fast you feel like you have been hit behind the ear and knocked into a daze of confusion, fear and finally anger where your tech-life falls apart and ruins your real life utterly, completely and with no light in sight down that dark, empty and black hole.


Monday, April 11, 2016

So Little Effort

It used to be a predator had to assess their targets and would need to weigh the odds of whether they would have success or whether they would be caught.

All you had to do is use appropriate awareness, adequate knowledge and project an aura of competency, etc., that you are not an easy target and the predator would move on to easier pickings.

In our modern tech-crime era none of this applies. The ePredators just don't consider or care about the human equation, coding cannot see, hear, touch of FEEL the human conditions. There is no need to “other a target” because they already see thier efforts as a coding exercise and challenge and the humans behind those challenges in coding just don’t even exist in their minds. 

You can be a person of great skill, ability and experience in self-defense in our physical world and yet in the uVerse those traits mean nothing. The only challenge they face are getting caught and that is slim to none, in other words the rewards literally dwarf the chances of getting caught, prosecuted and jailed. 

It takes very, very little effort on a ePredator to build the code and make their move. They don’t even consider whether the protection is adequate or strong because it comes down to a matter of a few milliseconds of effort, in the code running that is no effort although it does require bandwidth and computing power, to a few seconds. 

Bibliography (Click the link)
Goodman, Marc. “Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It.” Doubleday. New York. 24 February 2015. 

Eagleman, David. “The Brain: The Story of You.” Pantheon Books. New York. 2015

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